Entrance Animations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

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Author:Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2013OS: Windows 7 and 8

Date Created: July 9, 2014Last Updated: July 9, 2014

Among the several
types of
animations that
PowerPoint 2013 provides,
Entrance Effects are probably the most popular. By applying
Entrance Effect animations, you can make your hitherto invisible slide object appear on the
slide almost magically! You make them appear in the fraction of a second, or get them to fly in from
any direction. You can also do a zoom in, or even better, just make it subtle with a simple fade
in. Whatever Entrance Effects animation you choose, make sure to go for something that is in sync with the
subject of your presentation.

If you want to explore more Entrance Effect animations, select the More Entrance Effects
option within the Add Animation drop-down gallery as shown highlighted in
blue within Figure 1, above. This opens the
Add Entrance Effect dialog box as shown towards left in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Add Entrance Effect dialog box

Within the Add Entrance Effect dialog box you can see the Entrance Effects divided
into 4 categories:

Basic

Subtle

Moderate

Exciting

If you can't see Exciting which is the last category, just scroll down as shown
towards right within Figure 2, above.

Broadly speaking, these category names explain how much attention-seeking each of these available
effects are. Effects in the Basic category are simple, everyday effects that you may
have seen a zillion times. Subtle effects do not attract too much attention,
Moderate effects do ask for some attention, and effects in the
Exciting category scream for your audience's attention. As far as possible, you
should use something simple such as an Appear, a Fade, or a
Wipe effect -- these are all from either the Basic or
Subtle categories.

The animations within the Add Entrance Effect dialog box entirely
depend upon the slide object you have selected. Figure 2, above shows the
Add Entrance Effect dialog box when a shape is selected (we selected a
Rectangle) for applying animation. Compare the Exciting effects within Add Entrance Effect dialog towards right in Figure 2 above,
with the one in Figure 3, where we summoned the same dialog box
for applying animation to a text box.

As you can see in Figure 3 above, the Exciting category
(highlighted in red within Figure 3, above) contains
three extra Entrance Effects -- Drop, Flip, and
Whip effects which were grayed out in the Add Entrance Effect
dialog box shown towards right within Figure 2, above (highlighted in
red). These three Entrance Effects work only with text, not with
shapes.

The embedded sample presentation below shows all the Entrance animation effects
available in PowerPoint 2013.

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